Emotional Rescue

Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during her first four years.

Isaac D. Balbus teaches social and political theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Marxism and Domination (1982) and The Dialectics of LegalRepression (1973), co winner of the 1974 C. Wright Mills Prize.

Introduction 1 Birth 2 Discovery 3 The Institute Lecture 4 Grandiosity 4 Separation Anxiety 6 Shayla 7 Wife-Mother 8 The Article 9 Tripping 10 The Crash 11 Separation-Individuation 12 Development 13 Back to the Beginning 14 Postmodernist Problems 15 Conclusion